Maths

Adam Up Website

by admin on 09/06/2013

Adam UpJust today I got a follow on Twitter from the Adam Up website crew. Having never heard of the website before, I decided to have a look at their website. Adam Up is the creation of James Summerfield and Samuel Kordan. It consists of a series of songs to help pupils to learn aspects of the mathematics curriculum [click to continue…]

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Mystery Math Town App Competition

by admin on 20/05/2013

Mystery Math TownMystery Math Town is a newly-released maths app for iPad from Art Gig Apps, the same company that released Shake a Phrase. Filled with great graphics and moody background music, this app will take pupils on an adventure through the houses of a Gothic-looking town where they will practise their maths skills on an almost incidental level.

I have previously reviewed the app HERE on this site, which also includes a demo video. Artgig Apps, the developers of the Mystery Math Town app based in New York, have kindly given me two free Promo Codes for the app [click to continue…]

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The Circle Bookmarks

by admin on 18/05/2013

The Circle BookmarksThis is a handy, bookmark-sized, resource for pupils who are learning about the circle in maths. It explains the terminology radius, diameter, area, circumference, arc and sector. There are two bookmarks per page. If you find that the bookmarks are too large, set your printer preferences to print two to a page.

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Averages Bookmarks

by admin on 18/05/2013

Averages BookmarksThis is a handy, bookmark-sized, resource for pupils who are learning about averages. It explains the terminology mean, median, mode and range. There are two bookmarks per page. If you find that the bookmarks are too large, set your printer preferences to print two to a page.

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Hopscotch App Review

by admin on 18/04/2013

Hopscotch AppI was asked to do a review/comparison for an app called ‘Hopscotch‘. The aim of this review was to see if this was a worthy successor of the computer programme called ‘Scratch‘. Unfortunately, this is not the case, but there are a few things that caught my attention. But first though, I did a comparison between Scratch and Hopscotch: [click to continue…]

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Fractions, Decimals, Percentages Test

April 16, 2013

When pupils have learned their Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Facts, this test will assess how well they have learned them. It is a simple grid where pupils have to fill in the missing equivalent facts. (.pdf file 44.2KB)

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Mystery Math Town App

April 13, 2013

Mystery Math Town is a newly-released maths app for iPad from Art Gig Apps, the same company that released Shake a Phrase. Filled with great graphics and moody background music, this app will take pupils on an adventure through the houses of a Gothic-looking town where they will practise their maths skills on an almost [...]

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Maths History

March 29, 2013

This Powerpoint presentation shows a selection of images from the pages of a 4th Class Maths Book from 1940′s Ireland. It shows examples of old money (pounds, shillings and pence), old measures of length (miles, perches, furlongs), old measures of capacity (gallons, pecks and bushels), old shop bills and much more. It’s a bit of [...]

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Know About 10s Video

February 17, 2013

This maths video is to help pupils associate the numbers that add up to ten and, conversely the answers when you take away from ten. There’s a nice part towards the end of the video where pupils have to participate in taking away from ten.

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Fractions, Decimals, Percentages Bookmark

February 4, 2013

This is a handy, bookmark-sized, resource for pupils who are learning equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. The most common fractions, decimals and percentages are included. There are two bookmarks per page. (.pdf file 44.2KB)

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Fractions & Decimals Bookmark

February 4, 2013

This is a handy, bookmark-sized, resource for pupils who are learning equivalent fractions and decimals. The most common fractions and decimals are included. There are two bookmarks per page. (.pdf file 8.68KB)

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Property Language

January 30, 2013

This resource has flashcards with vocabulary connected with buying and selling property. Whether you are talking about property for maths or oral language, these flashcards will act as a visual reminder. (.pdf file 25.3KB)

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What Floor?

December 2, 2012

Nice Powerpoint presentation to help infant pupils with learning the numbers 1-5. It is really an activity that integrates other curricular strands also: it can be used for learning numbers in maths, oral language in English and oral language in Gaeilge. Source: Fiona Mahon (.ppt file 988KB)

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Numerosity App

November 8, 2012

Numerosity is a new maths app for iPad just released in the iTunes App Store from the Thoughtbox company. Its purpose is to reinforce learning in the four main mathematical operations operations. I asked one of my pupils to review the app for me and these are his thoughts: My teacher asked my to do [...]

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Dublin by Numbers

October 24, 2012

I got an email today from Mary Mulvihill from Ingenious Ireland letting me know about free maths activity trails that she has on her site. Called “Dublin by Numbers“, the trails are suitable for primary school pupils. The various activities in the trails range from simple to fairly complex, and teachers can pick and choose, to [...]

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